Indian community leaders and state and federal Greens MPs will come together this morning to call for an immediate end to the Indian travel ban.

Amar Singh, President and Founder of Turbans 4 Australia, and New South Wales Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi will join other Greens MPs and Indian diaspora in a press conference this morning calling on the Coalition to move forward it’s planned end to the ban on 15 May.

A gang of cyber criminals have forced the shutdown of one of the United States' major fuel pipeline operators for a third day running.

An investigation into the ransomware attack reports the group, known as Darkside, have built a ‘Robin Hood’ reputation by stealing or attacking large corporations and giving cuts to charity organisations in the US.

The 59th annual Brisbane Writers Festival wrapped at the Brisbane State Library up on Sunday.

The festival hosted nearly 100 events across Brisbane, with speakers from across Australia traveling to Queensland to appear. 

Festival organisers say they’re now looking ahead to their 60th anniversary in 2022.

A Trademark examiner has raised objection to an attempt to trademark the words “Always Was, Always Will Be”, saying the “expression is commonly used by other traders… to promote indigenous ownership or custodianship of land.”

The trademark application was made on 26 January this year and is currently being reviewed by IP Australia, a department of the federal government. 

In a show of overwhelming support for the first Muslim head of a major Western capital, London Mayor Sadiq Khan has been re-elected for a second time, with a 55.2 per cent margin. 

The win is in stark contrast to fellow Labour Party candidates across the United Kingdom, who have seen a series of disappointing losses in other local elections. 

Queensland school students will sit NAPLAN across the state this week, renewing calls for the census literacy and numeracy test to be cancelled altogether.

The Queensland Teachers Union has put out a press release encouraging parents to withdraw children from the test, saying it's not compulsory and parents shouldn’t feel obligated to force their children to sit the exam if it’s not right for them. 

The federal budget will be released on Tuesday, with Treasurer Josh Frydenburg expected to announce more than $10 billion on major infrastructure, in an effort to boost productivity and employment.

Experts are calling on the federal government to focus on ‘economic infrastructure’ instead, including childcare, social housing, aged care, and disability care.